The Enabler: When Helping Hurts the Ones You Love
Co-dependency-of which enabling is a major element-can and does exist in families where there is no chemical dependency. Angelyn Miller's own experience is a dramatic example: neither she nor her husband drank, yet her family was floundering in that same dynamic. In spite of her best efforts to fix everything (and everyone), the turmoil continued until she discovered that helping wasn't helping.

Miller recounts how she learned to alter the way she responded to family crises and general neediness, forever breaking the cycle of co-dependency. Offering insights, practical techniques, and hope, she shows us how we can transform enabling relationships into healthy ones.

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The Enabler: When Helping Hurts the Ones You Love
Co-dependency-of which enabling is a major element-can and does exist in families where there is no chemical dependency. Angelyn Miller's own experience is a dramatic example: neither she nor her husband drank, yet her family was floundering in that same dynamic. In spite of her best efforts to fix everything (and everyone), the turmoil continued until she discovered that helping wasn't helping.

Miller recounts how she learned to alter the way she responded to family crises and general neediness, forever breaking the cycle of co-dependency. Offering insights, practical techniques, and hope, she shows us how we can transform enabling relationships into healthy ones.

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The Enabler: When Helping Hurts the Ones You Love

The Enabler: When Helping Hurts the Ones You Love

by Angelyn Miller
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The Enabler: When Helping Hurts the Ones You Love

by Angelyn Miller

Overview

Co-dependency-of which enabling is a major element-can and does exist in families where there is no chemical dependency. Angelyn Miller's own experience is a dramatic example: neither she nor her husband drank, yet her family was floundering in that same dynamic. In spite of her best efforts to fix everything (and everyone), the turmoil continued until she discovered that helping wasn't helping.

Miller recounts how she learned to alter the way she responded to family crises and general neediness, forever breaking the cycle of co-dependency. Offering insights, practical techniques, and hope, she shows us how we can transform enabling relationships into healthy ones.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781587369056
Publisher: Wheatmark
Publication date: 03/01/2008
Pages: 120
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.44(d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Looking for Answers 13
Chapter 2. Portrait of an Enabler 17
Chapter 3. Portrait of a Dependent 21
Chapter 4. Dependency 29
Chapter 5. My Son, John 37
Chapter 6. The Turning Point 43
Chapter 7. Assessing Myself 49
Chapter 8. A Question of Honesty 55
Worksheet #1: Speaking Honestly 61
Chapter 9. Allowing Others to Be Responsible for Themselves 63
Chapter 10. Enabling 71
Chapter 11. Matter of Self-Esteem 81
Worksheet # 2: Knowing Yourself 85
Chapter 12. Committing to Change 87
Worksheet #3: Changing Yourself 94
Chapter 13. Facing Fear 95
Worksheet #4: Challenging Fear 102
Chapter 14. Key to Change 107
Worksheet #5: Responding Appropriately 115
Chapter 15. Living Differently 117
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